James Edward Morgan   Photo: Knud Riis     Updated: 14 OCT 2021
                                                                          
Airman: a014242.htm Surname: Morgan Init: J E Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 115

P_link: p346.htm Plane: LAN LM127 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b091145 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg,  A. 13. 14

Den 27. august 1944 styrtede LAN LM127 ned i Nordsøen under et bombetogt mod Kiel.
Hele besætningen omkom. Se p346MACR.
Pilot J. E. Morgan drev ind nær Vester Vedsted (omkring her) og nedgravet der af den tyske værnemagt.
Den 9. november 1945 begravede danskere ham i Esbjerg. (Kilde: FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) James Edward Morgan, 29 år, var søn af Ida Marion Morgan, Hammersmith,
London, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

2 flyvere fra LAN LM127 blev begravet i Esbjerg og 1 i HOLLAND. 4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

On 27 August 1944 LAN LM127  crashed in the North Sea on a bombing raid targeting Kiel.
All of the crew perished. See p346MACR.

Pilot J. E. Morgan was washed ashore near Vester Vedsted (about here) and dug down there by the German Wehrmacht. On 9 November 1945 Danes buried him in Esbjerg. (Source: FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) James Edward Morgan, 29, was the son of Ida Marion Morgan, of Hammersmith,
London, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC) In everlasting memory of Jim.  "My hero"

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 214.
382 Lancasters out - 17 lost. More on IBCC at airmen.
2 airmen from LAN LM127 were buried in Esbjerg and 1 in HOLLAND. 4 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 115 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * Lancaster Photos * No. 115 Squadron RAF Memorial.
Lancaster I LM127 KO-H  took off from RAF Witchford at 2027 hrs on 26 AUG 1941.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.